On the charge
Few things have rattled the cage of the dirtbike community more than the electrics. Having grown up on bikes powered by internal-combustion engines, most of us just hate the new wave. We love the sound of those tiny explosions going off inside a cylinder thousands of times a minute and the raw power they produce.
Through our rose-coloured goggles we seem to forget the hours upon hours of maintenance and money that goes into keeping our petrol-burning bikes running. When the helmet goes on we quickly forget being up until 2am cleaning the air filter, changing oil or clearing a blocked jet or injector.
Electric bikes seem to offer many benefits over their fuel-burning brothers and only a few drawbacks but it seems
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